Re: "Shining a Light on the Roots of Terrorism"
http://counterpunch.org/mcgovern11162009.html

Ray,

Letting the "elephant out of the bag" on 9/11 would of course require the word "treason." You're a bright, studied guy. You know this.

Further, if your intent is to fight terrorism, as the article positions itself, then western INTELLIGENCE support for terrorism should be front and center. From Mujahadeen in 1979 to KLA in the 1990s, Jundullah and MEK today, and Alpha 66, death squads on most continents and other seedy CIA connected "terror," this is quite an omission.

Besides the Israeli question -- which is all well and good, but not the whole story by a long shot -- we have US ALLIES supporting Islamic terrorist networks.

Further, these networks could not have accomplished 9/11 or numerous other attacks without treasonous support by US leaders and their allies in the Saudi Arabian government, the Pakistani government and elsewhere. When are your readers going to see an in-depth analysis of these matters, truly the matters that bear on the issue?

You have legitimised the 9/11 Commission Report in your latest article, more than you have delegitimised it. The cover up of the "foreign governments" who aided and abetted the hijackers is enough to sink this fraud of an "investigation." You know this, Ray. Of course you do. So why aren't you saying it?

There's quite a long list of problems with the 9/11 Commission's version of both the attacks and the current "war on terrorism."

And, perhaps you could revisit how all the hijackers received US entry visas although they were outrageously unqualified to receive them. What of State Department official Michael Springman's charges that CIA arranged such visas by overruling State Department at the embassies, particularly in Saudi Arabia? Springman's charges of "visa express" could directly implicate US intelligene officers for high treason on 9/11. Couple that with CIA deliberately "hiding" al Hazmi and al Mihdhar from the FBI, and you can take 9/11 in quite a different light.

You also mention the 1993 WTC bombing without any mention that the guy who built the bomb was an FBI informant, as he admitted in open court! And that his FBI handlers told him to produce a live, exploding device instead of an inert non-exploding version! A narrow, blinkered view on this history does much more harm than good.

Perhaps this article will shed some light on what's not talked about...

http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/2007/02/no-george-monbiot-these-are-facts-of.html